William Chadwick

14 x 18” oil “Bermuda Sun" W. Chadwick


My ACEO is a small study of Chadwicks beautiful painting:


2.5 x 3.5" "Sunny Day in Bermuda"
Impressionist William Chadwick was born in Dewsbury, England, and emigrated to Holyoke, Massachusetts. Influenced by Joseph DeCamp and John Twatchman at The Art Students League in New York, Chadwick quickly adopted the energetic brushstrokes and intimate scenes associated with American Impressionism. Following his studies at various institutions including the Boston Museum School of Art, Chadwick spent a number of years traveling to different locations within New England and Europe, including a three year sojourn to Italy from 1912-1915.

When he returned friends from the Art Students League in NYC encouraged him, to paint at Old Lyme, Connecticut. This experience redirected him from portrait and figure subjects to landscapes.
Chadwick spent the rest of his life in Old Lyme, devoting himself to the creation of Impressionists works that studied the en plein air effects of light and color.“Hamburg Cove” and “On the Porch” are two of his more famous paintings.

Meet Me at the Fair

I went to the Ohio State Fair last weekend and one of the highlights of the trip was the Butter Cow and the Butter Presidents Monument. The Butter Cow and her calf are a traditional favorite. The Monument is carved out of 2,000 pounds of butter and features the faces of every president from Ohio.



"The Ohio State Fair's traditional butter cow and calf this year are in the company of history times eight," said The Associated Press earlier this week. when reporting on the annual Columbus agricultural event that began Wednesday.
According to the AP article, the American Dairy Association estimated the work on Mount Buckeye took 370 hours. It sits in a glass fronted refrigerated case.

I'll post more about the fair in coming days. Here is a link about the prize winners in the arts:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/08/04/1_SPA_KIDS_2.ART_ART_08-04-08_D1_7TATEMM.html?sid=101

Battle of the Fonts

This is hysterical!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

ACEOs August KickOff!

In the dog days of summer what could be a better past time than painting some new ACEOss? Cool shady woods, cold snow scenes, seashore views and fresh strawberries!

Oceanview

This is a 4x6" acrylic of the California Coast. It was sold on Ebay

Link



IOWA Artists - I have just heard of an effort to help those artists in Iowa who were victims of the flooding earlier this summer. If you are of a mind to help theres information at http://www.legionarts.org/#Effects

Good Gravy

5x7" acrylic Price on Request

When I was growing up in NY everyone I knew called spaghetti sauce gravy. As in:

"Pass the gravy, Please." "You need more gravy on that ziti?" "I gotta go start the gravy."

Heres a good recipe for gravy:

4 tablespoons olive oil

5 garlic cloves and one onion minced

5 pounds fresh tomatoes, peeled and sliced*

1 6-oz. can tomato paste

splash of red wine

taste of sugar

10 fresh basil leaves

pepper

grated parmesean cheese

*OR 2 28-oz. cans ready-cut peeled tomatoes

In a deep 10-inch frying pan or pot heat the olive oil and gently sauté the garlic and onion.

Add tomatoes, tomato paste

Simmer

Simmer some more

Add wine, sugar to taste

Add basil and cheese

Evolution of an Idea

This is an 11 x14" landscape I started Sunday. I was playing with the idea of a split scene - a huge compositional risk. Dividing the canvas in half and all that. My main tree did wind up rather spot on dead center. I added two more distant trees. And while I liked the yellows in the lower left I felt they were too close to the edge. The first major revision had the water on the left smoothed out and unified more but this did not bring the painting along far enough. I also felt the mass of darks in the middle needed to be broken up some.
And here is what is finally the final version. In addition to the light values on the distant water I added more texture and some slight verticals to the bushes on the right and some dabs here and there to the path.

At this point I think I'm done.